Monday, January 22, 2007

hey Knopf, can we get a better picture of Marai on the book jacket of The Rebels??

Knopf/Borzoi has done a superb job of bringing Marai to English so far, in every way except the choice of author photo! The one they used on Embers, Casanova and now apparently The Rebels makes poor Marai look terrible.

Might I suggest one of these, especially Marai as a young man, as he wrote The Rebels at age 30:

EDIT: WHOOPS! This young man is not Marai, but the Hungarian novelist poet Radnóti Miklós! Damn you, Google Images.

But I write because the young man on that picture is not Marai, it is on of the biggest Hungarian poet: Miklós Radnóti (or in Hungarian order: Radnóti Miklós). He was also one of the biggest people in the hungarian literature in the '30's but unfortunately he was killed be the nazis at the end of the second world war :((

not at all - i've searched young pictures of Márai, but i haven't find. There is a book with full of pictures and stories with Márai, in Hungary, but i haven't met with this book in my city, and i don't buy any book without seeing what does it conatains, so i'm so curious about it!

Hi Balazs, Might you know the title and author of the book that contains photos pf Marai as a young man? I am looking to illustrate an article on his work and am having difficulties finding photos of him to use as illustrations. any help would be appreciated.

As well as getting a better photo, I think they should get a better typesetter. I was very disappointed to see Ernő (that's an o with a double accute accent) mis-typeset as Ernõ (o with a tilde). While I know this can happen on web-pages and documents created on PCs if the right font isn't used, it is inexcusable that such an error occurs in a published book. I found it very distracting.